Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 6,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Peter Anderson (ca. 1822-1879)
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Alton Ronald Waldon Jr. (1936- )
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Barbara C. Harris (1930- )
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George T. Downing (1819-1903)

Explore Global African History

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Sebastián Toral (? — ?)
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Canadian Expeditionary Force No. 2 Construction Battalion (1914-1918)
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Hastings Banda (ca. 1896-1997)
Certificate of Freedom for Samuel Birch, Book of Negroes, 1783
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Henry Washington (ca. 1740-ca. 1801)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

Edythe Turnham and Her Knights of Syncopation, Seattle, 1925
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Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955
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Dr. Cornelius Golightly (1917-1976): The Life of an Academic and Public Intellectual
50 Cent CD in Russian
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The Afro-Beat in Russia: The Influence of Black Music on Russian Popular Culture, 1890-2002
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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